EWG News Roundup (5/26): EWG’s 2017 Sunscreens Guide, Trump’s Budget, Food Fight with FDA and Good News from SC Johnson
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EWG News Roundup (10/2): California Cosmetics Bill Signed Into Law, Algae Beach Closures and More
EWG News Roundup (10/2): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
2017: EWG Sets Health Standards for Chemicals in Tap Water, Pushes Industry Transparency in Cosmetics, Cleaning Products and More
In 2017, EWG once again pushed the envelope in our mission to protect public health and the environment and empower all Americans to make better decisions about their safety and well-being.
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Nurses' Health
Caring for patients during a typical workday, nurses handle dozens of chemicals, drugs, and other agents that are designed to prevent, diagnose, control, or cure diseases and other health conditions. These therapeutic agents can heal, but have side effects as well. For most patients, the benefits of tightly controlled doses usually outweigh the risks. But the same may not be true for nurses.
Study: Nitrate in Wisconsin’s Drinking Water Linked to Cancer, Preterm Births and Up To $74 Million in Yearly Healthcare Costs
Nitrate contamination of drinking water in Wisconsin may cause nearly 300 cases a year of colorectal and other cancers and increase the risk of very premature births, very low birth weight and birth...
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K-Beauty Trends: Serums, Essences and EWG’s Best Bets
Like K-Pop music and spicy fried chicken, skin care and beauty products from Korea are flooding the American market. U.S. sales of K-beauty products, as they're called, have increased by almost 300 percent in the past two years alone.
2 Years After Reformed TSCA, Pruitt’s EPA Has Failed to Protect Us from Toxic Chemicals
On June 22, 2016, President Obama signed into law a significant overhaul of the Toxic Substances Control Act, or TSCA, the nation's primary chemical safety law. It was the first update to the law...
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Propyl Paraben
The pastry you're thinking about buying may contain the preservative propyl paraben, linked to disruptions in hormone signaling.
Spring Cleaning: EWG’s Tips on What to Use – and What to Avoid
From kitchen, bathroom, glass and all-purpose cleaners to dishwashing detergent, laundry soap and bleach, Environmental Working Group has scoured the chemical ingredients of more than 2,000 different...
Kid-Safe Chemicals Act letter & a list of organizations that signed on
Download PDF version. A Small Miracle, Inc. · AllergyKids · Alliance for Healthy Homes · Autism One AWARE4Autism · Breathe California · The Children’s Institute of Pittsburgh Citizens Against Toxic...
EPA Tilts Risk Document on Teflon Chemical in DuPont's Favor
EWG today criticized the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) draft risk assessment on the toxic Teflon chemical, PFOA, as a post-election tilt toward DuPont. The Agency ignored its own science panel...
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How Toxic Pollutants Can Harm Future, Unexposed Generations
In the last decade, studies by EWG and other researchers have firmly established that toxic chemicals can pass from pregnant women to fetuses through the umbilical cord, affecting children's future health and development. Now a growing body of research shows that some chemicals may alter gene function in ways that can be passed on not only to the immediate offspring, but also to grandchildren and
In Midwest farm states, nitrate pollution of tap water is more likely in lower-income communities
In three leading Midwestern agricultural states, communities whose drinking water is contaminated with nitrate are more likely to be lower income.
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Teen Girls' Body Burden of Hormone-Altering Cosmetics Chemicals
Laboratory tests reveal adolescent girls across America are contaminated with chemicals commonly used in cosmetics and body care products. Environmental Working Group (EWG) detected 16 chemicals from 4 chemical families - phthalates, triclosan, parabens, and musks - in blood and urine samples from 20 teen girls aged 14-19.
Move Along, Nothing to See Here
With deliberations on the 2012 farm bill due to begin in January, EWG looks at how the industrial agriculture lobby dominates the hearing process, leaving little room for good food reformers.
EWG Comments on Chemical Risk Evaluation Procedures Under New TSCA
EWG has spent over a decade advocating for reforms to strengthen the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). EPA should use its expanded authority to create a robust, data-driven risk evaluation process...
EWG News Roundup (5/24): EWG’s 2019 Guide to Sunscreens, EWG Board Member Michelle Pfeiffer Lobbies for Safe Cosmetics and More
EWG News Roundup (5/24): Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.
What if Lots of Food and Farm Workers Get Sick at the Same Time?
More than 20 million people grow, harvest, pack, process, transport, serve and sell our food. The food and farm industry rivals the energy and health care sectors in terms of number of jobs.
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Canaries in the Kitchen
Telfon-coated cookware poses a hazard when it is heated to high temperatures. EWG tests show that in 2 to 5 minutes on a conventional stovetop, cookware coated with Teflon and other non-stick surfaces can exceed temperatures at which the coating breaks apart and emits toxic particles and gases linked to hundreds, perhaps thousands, of pet bird deaths and an unknown number of human illnesses each
EPA still failing to act on widespread toxic chemical contamination of U.S. drinking water
Millions of Americans are unwittingly drinking water that includes an invisible toxic cocktail made up of contaminants linked to cancer, brain damage and other serious health harms, the 2021 update to...
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Dioxin
After nearly 30 years of delays caused by pressure from chemicals and defense industries, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is moving forward on setting a safety limit for exposure to dioxin, a ubiquitous, highly toxic and carcinogenic chemical that people of all ages ingest daily with their food – starting at a mother's breast.
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DuPont workers smoke Teflon-laced cigarettes in company experiments
A series of studies published beginning in the 1950s shows that DuPont has known for at least 50 years that Teflon fumes at relatively low temperatures can cause an acute illness known as polymer fume fever. In several studies DuPont recruited human volunteers and intentionally exposed them to Teflon fumes to the point of illness. The results of these studies suggest that people cooking on Teflon
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Children's Cereals
EWG's analysis of more than 1,500 cereals, including more than 180 children's cereals, shows that a child who eats a bowl a day for a year ends up consuming 10 pounds of sugar.
EWG news roundup (3/11): Decades of FDA failure to act on ‘forever chemicals,’ how cancer-causing benzene ends up in cosmetics and more
EWG news roundup (3/11): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.
